The Incredible Hulk DVD Review - page 2

06-10-2008 11:32

And the answer to the opening question is absolutely!

It's great to see, like Robert Downey Jr in Iron Man, Edward Norton step into this blockbuster role, a role we don't associate with the actor, as the tortured Bruce Banner looking for a cure.

While the film is action packed and full of CGI at the heart of the picture is a man at war with the anger that is inside of him who is desperate to go home.

And Norton's ability as an actor brings more depth and emotion to a character who, in the past, has been a little 2D.

But when you come to see a movie like this is really is all about the CGI and, unlike Indy, the effects really do not disappoint.

They clever delay of the appearance of Banner's alter ego to at last thirty minutes into the movie slowly cranks up the audiences' anticipation to see the new Hulk.

And the clash between our sort of hero and the spike-spined Abomination is highly adrenalised, violent and with a lot of noise and destruction.

Norton is surrounded by a great cast of the General, played by William Hurt, who has put his desires to get his hands on what flows through Banner's body before what is right and even his own daughter.

Liv Tyler returns to the big blockbuster movie as Banner's ex-girlfriend Betty Ross who, naturally, still carries a torch for Banner and is estranged from her father.

There is also a great turn from Tim Roth as the psychotic commando Emil Blonsky who becomes obsessed with the Hulk and ends up with a nemesis of his own to contend with.

In all this is a rip-roaring ride that is everything that you would expect from a summer blockbuster, an intelligent script, great action and a superb cast.

However despite all this it failed to reach the dizzy heights of Iron Man and batman's box office success earlier this summer.

And talking of Iron Man there is a clever little cross over with that franchise as Downey Jr reprises, if only for a brief scene, his role as Tony Stark that could lead to a great cross-over between these two cinema superheroes.

The Incredible Hulk is released 13th October on DVD

FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw